We& #39;re posting a series of #ShortTakes on our current time of quarantine and #COVID19. First, @ERICGUDAS on the social distancing inherent in the freelancer& #39;s life. https://twitter.com/LAReviewofBooks/status/1239378366215737344">https://twitter.com/LAReviewo...
"Two things are clear from the current viral onslaught: the first is that we too are paralyzed by an unshakeable sense of terror; and the second is that, while such prime emotion feels new and untamable, it is as old as humankind." @IlanStavans on fear. https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/on-fear/">https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-tak...
"If cruelty is a threat of our mode of existence at the best of times, let us be particularly wary of what is to come under the new reality. In particular, let us make sure this does not become the new normal." Elena Comay del Junco on selfishness. https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/parables-of-the-plague/">https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-tak...
"I’m looking at you, Sam Beckett, on the occasion of your birthday, in the midst of the kind of scorched earth event that many of your works imply has already occurred. Life in the aftermath." Michael Coffey shelters with Beckett. https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/sheltering-with-beckett/">https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-tak...
"There is something in the nature of a pandemic that forces upon us the sense of the fleeting instant, the moment that appears and disappears forever." https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/coronavirus-crisis-missed-opportunity/">https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-tak...
"If psychoanalysis has anything to offer right now — and in truth, at the moment, this is very little — it is that it has always insisted on precisely what we are now coming to understand: no one is immune." Emma Lieber: https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/analysts-couch-lamp/">https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-tak...
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